Great Suggestion, Guys!

[Tinster]

Turn off the computer, Dale!
Quit your worries and go drive the car!
Get off line and go enjoy driving the car!

I did exactly as advised- Almost Amos hit the streets
with me and the Mrs roaring about Bayamon.

To quote:

"Well Stanley! ANOTHER fine mess you've gotten us into!"

We had a blast !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Real happy I have my boating pilot's license.

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[tomshobby]

Our weather right now!

 

[DNK]

Dale- If you drive fast enough you don't have to put up the top!

 

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[Brosky]

Dale,

By Monday, we'll have what Tom has and that means salted roads right about the time that we were going to road test the TR6 suspension.

Well, that's gonna have to wait a few days, unless we get lucky and just get rain, but I doubt it.

So stop working on it and enjoy it like you did today.

 

[Tinster]

Stricken-

That was the point. The rain was so bloody intense, the wipers on high speed could not begin to keep up with it.

Paul- good luck driving

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[Brosky]

No driving for awhile if it storms.

The car has never seen salted roads up to now and it won't start seeing them this week either.

 

[Tinster]

Sorry, Paul- NOT a valid excuse!

"Quit your worries and go drive the car!"

A newly installed suspension needs to be loaded,
driven a bit and then everything re-torqued. Someone
much brighter than myself informed me thusly.

Now about that salt. It is a scientific fact, known
to all us salt water boaters: clear tap water removes
salt deposits rather quickly.

So test drive your new suspension and enjoy it! When the
wheels are off for the final torgue routine, hose down
the suspension and underside with clear tap water.

Trust me on the salt thing.

d

 

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[Tinster]

Hey Stirkle-

True, Paul replaced his entire suspension for
a different reason than I did; but with a brand new
suspension you just have this great itch to drive the
car over a speed bump and around a bend in the road
to feel the suspension working.

The temptation is simply too great to ignore.

My call is Paul sneaks a short drive.

d

 

[Brosky]

Dale,

Thank you for the advice. If you notice in the pictures that I posted earlier, there are no cotter pins in any of the castle nuts, due to the fact that the suspension will need retorqued after it is driven. It is shimmed with the same adjustments as before, but the different parts will probably have some effect on that, so the full four wheel alignment will be the last step of the project.

To elaborate on what Strikle said earlier, I'm arranging auditions for partners to get ready for my debut on the dance floor. I have a better chance of hitting the road for that show, than the Triumph does of hitting a salty New England road after a snow storm. It can sit until the time is right.

Many years ago, I learned to add ointment to an itchy area. In the same vein, I've added enough time, effort and money into this project that waiting even a month or more doesn't faze me in the slightest.

Besides, my website needs updating and I have to start to research another project or two for the car, so I have plenty to do.

 

[Tinster]

Wow! Talk about will power!!!

Once completed, I just had to drive mine over a speed
bump over by Pedro's house' as I gave him a single digit
wave of the hand.

Rainy all day today-
Going to a classical music concert this afternoon.

d

 

[Aldwyn]

Dale there is a thread around here someplace about me and my wife also getting cought in a heavy downpour in the TR6... how are we to know how much fun the car is to drive in the pouring rain?!

It IS a lot fo fun, no?

 

[Banjo]

I'm with Paul on this one Dale... No amount of tap water can get that sneaky road salt outta all the little cracks and crevices it finds in your undercarrage. Unlike a boat, a TR6 has lots of impossible to clean out spots underneath.
Of course you know about all this if you can think back far enough.
It's killing me to be driving the BMW this winter. It's never seen a N.Y. winter, and it's rust free. but finances and a stubborn Jeep that won't run for beans when it's below 50 (must be a Puerto Rican Jeep) are forcing me to slog my 318 through the slush.
It'll never be the same.
I hate tryinh to do an alignment on anything that's been driven in N.Y. for any length of time (5 years or more) as NOTHING moves. All the adjusters are frozen, all the bolts snap off when loosened. It's a nightmare. and it dosen't help when trying to beat flat rate time either.

 

[Moseso]

Now about that salt. It is a scientific fact, known
to all us salt water boaters: clear tap water removes
salt deposits rather quickly.

Dale--
You live in Puerto Rico.
I live in Minnesota.
You have not seen what I have seen.
I have seen cars dissolve before my very eyes!
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[Tinster]

Aldwyn- Sometimes it's a REAL blast!!

Like driving in flooded streets with a water depth over
one foot. You get mighty wet feet in my car.

We've been caught Driving almost Amos in the rain
three times. Remember the soft top has been Peter-ized
but remains very low on my priority list due to lack of
funding for a new one.

The Perter-ized soft top leaks like Niagra falls and once
blew off. Once latch is almost gone.

d

 

[NickMorgan]

Dale,
I couldn't see what you were trying to show in those pictures. Just looks like an average sort of Scottish day to me!!
I have to take you up on the salt issue. It really gets in every where and immediately starts bare metal rusting and eating its way through chrome. It will get inside the chassis and sills and into the seams between the wings and inner wings. The main problem for us in colder climes is that even if we try to wash it away with tap water the car will remain wet for a long time. It's not warm enough to evaporate the moisture away.
Now you know why we all envy you so much!!
Nick

 

[Brosky]

If you live on an island and a storm hits your shores, where did it form? Over the ocean?

And what is the ocean made up of? Saltwater?

When it storms are you not getting a higher percentage of saltwater in the rain than those who live inland?

Maybe that and your very high humidity is why you have surface rust on things overnight.

Just a simple question that will probably start another interesting debate.

And by the way, Rhode Island doesn't count in this discussion, since we're not really an island. We're just faking it for the New Yorkers who visit the beaches every summer.

 

[GB1]

Paul:

I live on somewhat of an island near the beach and honestly the rain can never be predicted. Sometimes it appears that is coming and doesn't and other times it just hits with no warning.

I have come to the conclusion that sometimes the sky just opens up above us and takes a dump.


Dale:

Sorry, I have to agree with the other side about the salt.


Pat

 

[Moseso]

If you live on an island and a storm hits your shores, where did it form? Over the ocean?

And what is the ocean made up of? Saltwater?

When it storms are you not getting a higher percentage of saltwater in the rain than those who live inland?

Maybe that and your very high humidity is why you have surface rust on things overnight.

Just a simple question that will probably start another interesting debate.

And by the way, Rhode Island doesn't count in this discussion, since we're not really an island. We're just faking it for the New Yorkers who visit the beaches every summer.

Rain does not contain salt. Wind-blown ocean spray contains plenty of salt! Parts in a garage are probably 99.97% safe from ocean spray, so I would tend to blame island humidity for causing rapid rusting of parts in the garage.
Cars parked close to the beach on a regular basis get salt water on 'em. I grew up in San Francisco -- home of "California Cars." Not all "California Cars" are created equal. The ones that spent years near the beach can be as badly eaten-up as the "Mid-western Cars" I live with now.